Character Through the Arts
Are you looking for ways to engage your students in exciting activities through the Arts? The following teacher developed resources provide ideas and activities to embed character through the arts. The Character Through the Arts website offers a number of lessons that focus on "big ideas" through literacy using rich mentor texts and teaching character using music, art and drama. Teachers and artists have formed a partnership to submit lesson ideas and activities to use in the classroom.
Enjoy a look through the website for many ideas/activities that may best suit your program and the curriculum.
"The purpose of Character Through The Arts was to integrate arts agencies/teaching artists and the Artful Learning™ education reform model with proven character education strategies to determine the impact this integration had on moral character and academic achievement.
In the “teachers’ corner” at this website you will find a large library of extensive, cross-curricular units."
http://www.characterthroughthearts.org/
Another resource to explore is incredibleart.com . When you type in "character education" in their search box, a variety of lessons from many online sites will appear. The following is a direct link to the character education sites that incorporate the arts in their lesson plans http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/Files/search.html?cx=partner-pub-6606350984518890%3Ay5o55p4jxaa&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=character+education&siteurl=www.princetonol.com%2Fgroups%2Fiad%2Flinks%2Fartstuff.html#1119
For more information contact:
Kerry Grbich
Character Education Special Assignment Teacher
705-945-7433
